Anyone play the game "Ingress"?
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As the topic says, just interested to see if anyone else plays the location based game created by Niantic labs at Google.
I've been playing now for a couple months and finally hit level 8 were supposedly the game really starts. It's not too bad. I enjoy the faction on faction battles. It also gets you out and about away from the house.
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Never heard of it.
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I know the database but not the game.
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Never heard of it.
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Ingress - a Niantic Project; from Google.
It combines Capture the flag and Geo-Caching (of sorts) but using your Smart phone as a 'scanner' to see a slightly different world. There are two Factions - or Teams; the Enlightened (Green) and Resistance (Blue).
Historical Markers, Churches, Unique places of interests, murals, sculptures are 'portals' which can be captured so that you can link them together to create a field (dome of sorts) to capture Mind Units.
Side Note:
- Enlightened = Frogs
- Resistance = Smurfs
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If I lived in an area where there were more people I would probably try and play. Around here though I doubt there are many nodes within walking/driving distance.
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@coliver said:
If I lived in an area where there were more people I would probably try and play. Around here though I doubt there are many nodes within walking/driving distance.
What city - I can look at the intel map and see.
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@g.jacobse said:
@coliver said:
If I lived in an area where there were more people I would probably try and play. Around here though I doubt there are many nodes within walking/driving distance.
What city - I can look at the intel map and see.
Haha city.. that's funny. The closest thing to a city around here is a college town called Oneonta.
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Sounds cool. Does it work in the UK, do you know?
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@coliver said:
@g.jacobse said:
@coliver said:
If I lived in an area where there were more people I would probably try and play. Around here though I doubt there are many nodes within walking/driving distance.
What city - I can look at the intel map and see.
Haha city.. that's funny. The closest thing to a city around here is a college town called Oneonta.
That's where my uncle lives!
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@coliver said:
Haha city.. that's funny. The closest thing to a city around here is a college town called Oneonta.
My sister in law graduated from there.
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@g.jacobse and I both play it.
He's a damned smurf though.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Haha city.. that's funny. The closest thing to a city around here is a college town called Oneonta.
My sister in law graduated from there.
No matter where I go in the US I seem to always find people that are either wearing a SUNY Oneonta or SUNY Delhi sweatshirt. They always end up having relatives that attended one of these colleges. Doesn't matter if I'm in Florida, North Carolina, or Texas. I always see someone with one of those hoodies.
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Same here we see lots of RIT or Suny Geneseo Sweatshirts when we travel. Heck I even saw one in Africa (no I am not kidding).
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I can't walk very far without seeing VT hoodies and shirts here.
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Ingress is awesome! I went from 1-8 in less than a month. Working on level 10 now. Only been playing since November. Some would say I'm ingress obsessed, plus I'm really the only girl in town that plays.
